8,500 Premises in Cudworth Get Virgin Media’s UK Gigabit FTTP

Some 8,500 premises in the large urban village of Cudworth (South Yorkshire) have become the latest to go live on Virgin Media’s new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband and TV network, which at present can deliver average download speeds of 516Mbps and this will be upgraded to support 1Gbps in the near future.

As usual the local roll-out forms part of Virgin Media’s Project Lightning build, which aims to add an additional 3-4 million premises to their UK coverage (so far they’ve completed around 2 million) using a mix of FTTP via Radio Frequency Over Glass (RFoG) and Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) technology. Both methods make use of the DOCSIS standard so as to harness the same consumer hardware.

On top of that VM recently started to deploy their new DOCSIS 3.1 network upgrade (here), which by the end of 2021 aims to have boosted their top broadband download speeds to 1Gbps+ across the United Kingdom (currently live around Southampton, Greater Manchester and Reading).

Hugh Woolford, VM’s Regional Director Yorkshire, said:

“We are delighted to have completed our expansion works in Cudworth which will give residents and businesses a huge digital boost. They’ll be able to benefit from the boost in connectivity that our ultrafast broadband provides, and better connectivity means better browsing, streaming, downloading and working.”

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